Mohamed Shaayif Shakir (0332075)

Project 3 - Visual Analysis This weeks lecture was on Visual Analysis. Visual analysis is studying the different design elements in an artwork and explaining it in words. The Analysis is in 3 phases which is observation, analysis and interpretation. This project is divided into 2 parts. The first part is visual analysis of a poster (the 3 phases). The second part is using that visual analysis to create a piece of our own. Part 1 The poster I picked is a fan made poster of Darksouls, which is a game I really enjoy and The poster looks very visually pleasing. Visual Analysis The poster is in a portrait format. The main subject is the person in the lower middle of the piece. The main subject is highest in contrast, which the contrast fading as the elements go up. The colors are tones of brown, or 'coffee' color. There are coffee art textures in the piece as well, or these textures could be showing and old piece of paper. The foreground is made of mountains and a sky with the cloud...

Project 3 - Digital Surrealism The objective this project is to create a surreal artwork in photoshop. Below are some examples of digital surrealism. Process My main idea is to use the first cyborg piece I made and put it into a cyberpunk city. Cyborg image of me Image for background - Artwrok by Chin Fong  https://www.chinfongart.com/art I used quick selection to cut out myself into this image, after using healing brush to remove some of the ninja character which was already in the image. Then it was color matched I used the brush tool to add some glow from the pink sign onto my body in a new layer Saturn image I want to add Whale image I added to the sky, Inspired the the song Gojira - Flying Whales More whale Images Whales and Saturn added in Next I brought it into Adobe after effects for animation. My main idea for animation is to add rain fall into the image. I started by adding the CC rainfall simulation in after effects and playing around with settings a bit. Next step addin...

12/06/20 - 19/06/20 / Week 9 - Week 10 Mohamed Shaayif Shakir / 0332075 Typography / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media / Taylors University Task 2 / Project 2B LECTURES           Week 9 :  12 /06/20 Screen & Print This weeks lecture was on screen & print. As technology advances, smartphones and computers are getting more and more available and it has come to a point at which nearly everyone uses their screens as the main medium of communication. This lecture discussed the differences between the type formatting for screen and on paper. For paper type formatting is more close by, closer line length and kerning giving more contrast to it, But for screen its the opposite. Week 10 :  19 /06/20  Feedback Session Feedback was given to all students on their progress on project 2B. Week 11-12 : 26 /06/20 - 03/07/20 Consultation Consultation for progress on the project. INSTRUCTIONS Task 2 / Project 2B Our objective for this task is to us...